David Allen's Blog, page 30

Episode #76: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get Your Cockpit Under Control

Get your cockpit under control. When you sit down, you are ready to fly, you're ready to go. You don't have to rearrange anything in order to be able to do your best work.

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Episode #75: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Barrel

There are times when one situation, project, or circumstance that's particularly important to you, you're not appropriately engaged with yet can color the whole rest of your life, and make it all feel grey, and solemn, and burdensome. Where as it's really just one situation that you need to get ahold of.

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Episode #74: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Renegotiate Your Commitments

Managing commitments is a whole lot of what the GTD is about to keep yourself clear, so that you don't feel like you're constantly having to do all of those.

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Episode #73: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Catch Up Your Communications with People

Who do you owe a thank you to? Who do you owe a communication with to update them? All the best things in my life have actually come from relationships that I've had.

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Episode #72: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—What’s Really Got Your Attention?

What circumstance, situation that you're in right now, if that were put onto cruise control, or if you were appropriately engaged with that would make the biggest difference?

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Episode #71: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Worst Case Scenario Building

Do the worst case scenario, get through it, relax, and focus on the best.

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Episode #70: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Labelers

If you're not doing anything else, order yourself a labeler, if you don't have one already. You'd be amazed at how much of a difference it makes.

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Episode #69: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Catch Up on Legal Stuff

This is a tip, that would be nice to have implemented before turbulent times. Catch up on your legal documentations, and life insurance, and wills, and all that other stuff.

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Episode #68: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Crusty Projects

It'd be a good idea to do an inventory of any old crusty projects that have been sort of hanging around in your life and work.

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Episode #67: David Allen with a Two-minute Tip—Get Your Paper Based Filing System in Order

If you don't have a really good, quick filing system that you can put stuff into and access easily, then the stuff tends to mount up and then constipate your system.

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